Problem with Server Side Includes in shtml page 1

gus121 · Aug 26, 2003

Hi I have the following SSI in webpage.




works fine locally on IIS however when transfer over to ISP host (i think its unix) I recieve error in browser and no include is added. [an error occurred while processing this directive]. Only has a problem when the Server Side Includes path goes down a directory to recieve a file.

thanks

Angus

Angus

dwarfthrower · Aug 26, 2003

Unix is case sensitive, make sure your include directives match the file paths letter for letter top_header != Top_Header as far as Unix is concerned.

Wullie · Aug 26, 2003

Use include virtual rather than file, and make the path relative to the server root.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.whiland.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

gus121 · Aug 28, 2003

Hi Wullie thanks for your help. I take it 'path relative to the server root' will go somethong like this.

e.g localy:
http:\\localhost\application_name\folder

Angus

ChrisHunt · Aug 28, 2003

Errr... no. The server root is the directory that you get served if only the domain name is entered (included files have to be in the web space to work like this). So if the URL of the file to be included is

http://www.mydomain.com/inc/header.txt

your SSI command would be
[tt]

[/tt]

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gus121 · Aug 28, 2003

Hi Chris thanks for your swift reply I still can't seem to get the virtual path to work in IIS (which I am using to develop the website). I get object not found. include files are all within the webspace.



any ideas why?

Angus

gus121 · Aug 28, 2003

This could be to do with an issue I have had with all site relative links in my webpage. To create site relative links in the html i had to resort to puting a html base tag with the path to the root of the web server. If you could help me on this I would be most appreciated.

thanks

Angus

Angus

ChrisHunt · Aug 28, 2003

Not sure why you'd get that problem - sounds like it could be some kind of server configuration thing, though it may be something more simple. Do you have a URL that we can look at?

If you get no solution here, you might find the IIS forum can help you: forum41

-- Chris Hunt

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gus121 · Aug 28, 2003

I tried uploading live to (unix) server as well with similar result.

http://www.tdci.eu.com/newsite/template.shtml

the include file are held in the site root /inc/file.inc



thanks for your time. I will ask the IIS forum.

Angus

cian · Aug 28, 2003

It works!
The example you posted

http://www.tdci.eu.com/newsite/template.shtml

the footer IS included in the document, but you are getting 2 errors in the header.

What code are you using for the 2 Includes in the header?

- É -

http://www.ssi-developer.net/elgoog/

gus121 · Aug 28, 2003

both include files just contain plain html!

the first 1 contains:-
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="27"> <img src="images/Navigation/top_banner_01.gif" width=27 height=42 alt=""></td>
<td bgcolor=#617F99 width="54"> <img src="images/Navigation/spacer.gif" width=54 height=42 alt=""></td>
<td width="100%" bgcolor="#617F99"> </td>
</tr>
</table>

the secound 1 contains:-

<table summary="TDCi Left Navigation Bar" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="8%">
<table summary="TDCi Products" width=78 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <img src="images/Navigation/spacer2.gif" width=67 height=10 alt=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<div align="center"><img src="images/Navigation/tdci-solutions.gif" width="67" height="49"></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <img src="images/Navigation/spacer2.gif" width=67 height=10 alt=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="14"width="61" bgcolor="#617F99"></td>
<td height="14" width="17" bgcolor="#617F99"><img src="images/Navigation/prod_cor1.gif" width="17" height="14"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="left-link-top" bgcolor="#617F99" colspan="2">
<div align="center"><b>Products </b></div>
</td>
<tr>
<td class="left-link" bgcolor="#617F99" colspan="2"><a href="Engineering-Solutions/PrescientQA.shtml">PrescientQA</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="left-link" bgcolor="#617F99" colspan="2"><a href="Business-Solutions/Legato.shtml">Legato</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="left-link" bgcolor="#617F99" colspan="2"><a href="Engineering-Solutions/Enovia.shtml">Enovia</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="left-link" bgcolor="#617F99" colspan="2"><a href="Engineering-Solutions/Spicer.shtml">Spicer</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="left-link" bgcolor="#617F99" colspan="2"><a href="Business-Solutions/Worktiviti.shtml">Worktiviti</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="left-link" bgcolor="#617F99" colspan="2"><a href="Custom-Solutions/Oracle.shtml">Oracle</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="left-link" bgcolor="#617F99" colspan="2"><a href="Support-solutions/Bakbone.shtml">Bakbone</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="750" bgcolor="#617F99" colspan="2"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>

Angus

Wullie · Aug 28, 2003

Are your paths correct?

Can you post the page you are using (With the include statements in it) and also tell us the actual path from the root of your website to where the files to be included are?

Hope this helps

Wullie

http://www.necomputers.org.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.whiland.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

gus121 · Aug 28, 2003

No problem Wullie.

1)The path from the root of the web site too these two imclude files is as follows:-

/inc/top_header.inc
/inc/left_navi.inc

2) the web page including SSI information can be seen by going to the following and viewing the source.

http://www.tdci.eu.com/newsite/template.txt

Thanks for all your help.

Angus

gus121 · Aug 28, 2003

sorry I forgot HTML absolute paths were set up to my local network. have changed them to external live site now. sorry. Problem still persists.

Angus

Wullie · Aug 28, 2003

Hi mate,

Change your includes to point to:

/newsite/inc/top_header.inc

The files you are referencing do not exist at the paths you are using, the path is /newsite/inc/ not just /inc/

Hope this helps

Wullie

http://www.necomputers.org.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.whiland.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

gus121 · Aug 28, 2003

Thanks Wullie Idiot not to notice that.

Angus

Wullie · Aug 28, 2003

Hi mate,

Easiest way to debug this if you are not sure of paths is to take the domain name, then add the path to the include after it.

I did it with yours and got a 404 error, but when I added /newsite/ before it I got the include. [wink]

Wullie

http://www.necomputers.org.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.freshlookdesign.com

http://www.whiland.co.uk

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

SashiRaveendran · Aug 28, 2003

may be its a patch for a website vunerablity that may not let you back reference as it sees the ../ as a type of vunerablity.(you never know)

I would also check to make sure you can even use includes on your ISPs server

on error goto hell

SashiRaveendran · Aug 28, 2003

sorry, late reply

on error goto hell

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